The inception of this conversation touches on the efforts of scholars and academics to preserve and connect us to our history of people and expression.

Black Art has seen disproportionate acclaim for the contributions to visual and contemporary art culture until recent years when political and social importance around art has launched careers and notoriety of household names like Barkley Hendricks, Faith Ringgold, and Alvin Ailey- who respectively have carved out spaces in abstract, performance, and figuration.

Examples we could live by

• Schomberg and their living artist archive as well as having the largest Elizabeth Catlett collection